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Competencies to be more precise and reporting to the Parliament to be introduced
Commentary of Institute Alternative to the Bill on Basic Principles of Intelligence and Security Sector in Montenegro It is not clear which problems the Government intends to solve by adopting this Law, since the Bill exposition was reduced to mere copying of the articles of the Law, as it happens rather often. The only concrete…
Lack of oversight over carrying out public procurement is worrisome
Inspection for public procurement conducted only 84 inspection controls in 2013. Since the key problem in the field of public procurement, according to the European Commission, are irregularities in the implementation of the Law, meaning weak implementation capacities of the competent authorities, it is necessary to create conditions for adequate supervision over the implementation of…
”Social Card” published in the scientific magazine of the Social Workers’ Society of Serbia
“Social Card, Social Welfare Information System in Montenegro – High Hopes?”, our policy brief (concise policy paper), is published integrally in the magazine of Association of Social Workers of Serbia. Editor in chief of the magazine “Social Policy and Social Work” is Ana Čekerevac, PhD, while the Editorial Board consists of: Mira Lakićević, PhD, Milorad…
Public administration reform, Rule of law
Our findings in the State Department’s 2013 Report
Report of the State Department of the United States of America on the state of human rights in Montenegro in 2013 includes findings from our three research projects. The above mentioned report indicates to insufficiently functional parliamentary oversight of the Security and Defense Sector, failure to implement the Plan for Parliamentary Oversight, as well as…
Review of our research paper in “European pulse”
An overview of our study “Procurement in Montenegrin Municipalities” is presented in the “In Focus” section of the latest issue of the European Pulse, electronic monthly magazine for European integration, published by Centre for Civic Education. The authors of this study are Jovana Marović, PhD, Research Coordinator at Institute Alternative, and Stevo Muk, President of…
The ”Pobjeda” Affair
It has been approximately ten days since “Pobjeda”, state-run newspaper, had contacted us and asked to reply several questions about the topic “Affairs in Montenegro”. The intention of representing “affairs” as “alleged” was clear from the very composition of the questions. In other words, the intention was to defend Milo Đukanović, the most prominent actor…